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Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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